2017 Men's Youth World Handball Championship

The 2017 IHF Men's Youth World Championship was the seventh edition of the U-19 tournament and held in Tbilisi, Georgia from 8 to 20 August 2017. All matches were played in two halls at the Olympic Palace.

France won their second straight title by defeating Spain 28–25 in the final. Denmark captured the bronze medal after defeating Croatia 30–29.

Qualified teams
On 31 July 2017, Venezuela withdrew from the tournament and Poland was named as the substitute.

Draw
The draw was held on 10 May 2017.

Seedings
The seedings were announced on 8 May 2017.

Referees
The IHF selected 16 referee pairs for the championship.

Preliminary round
The schedule was announced on 29 May 2017.

All times are local (UTC+4).

President's Cup

 * 17th place bracket


 * 21st place bracket

9–16th placement games
The eight losers of the round of 16 are seeded according to their results in the preliminary round against teams ranked 1–4 and play an elimination game to determine their final position.

Bracket

 * 5th place bracket

Top goalscorers
Source: IHF

Top goalkeepers
Source: IHF

MVP

 * Left-back: 🇫🇷 Kyllian Villeminot

All-star team

 * Goalkeeper: 🇷🇺 Maksim Popov
 * Right wing: 🇫🇷 Edouard Kempf
 * Right back: Ivan Martinović
 * Centre back: 🇪🇸 Ian Tarrafeta
 * Left back: Emil Lærke
 * Left wing: Emil Jakobsen
 * Pivot: Luis Frade